By Gina Tabonares
Variety News Staff

A GRAND jury superceding indictment was filed yesterday against former Guam Superior Court administrator Anthony Sanchez and California lawyer Howard Hills, adding 10 more charges to the original indictment.
Unlike the original indictment where Sanchez was charged separately from Hills, the two co-defendants share the same amount of liability on the 14 charges filed through the superceding indictment.
They were charged with unlawful influence as a third-degree felony, conspiracy for unlawful influence as a third-degree felony, theft of property held in trust as a second-degree felony, official misconduct as a misdemeanor, theft by deception as a second-degree felony, conspiracy for theft by deception as a second-degree felony, theft by deception as a second-degree felony, conspiracy for theft by deception as a second-degree felony, misapplication of entrusted funds as a misdemeanor, and conspiracy for misapplication of entrusted funds as a third-degree felony.
Sanchez and Hills are expected to be in Judge Arthur Barcinas’s courtroom this morning for a criminal trial setting and arraignment.
Sanchez earlier pleaded not guilty to the felony charges filed against him and Hills in connection with the local court’s almost $500,000 payments to disgraced Washington, D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
According to indictment documents, Sanchez and Hills conspired to transfer 36 payments in $9,000 checks from the Judicial Branch of the Government of Guam.
Deputy Attorney General Lewis Littlepage stated in the complaint that the move was a violation of procurement and supply management policy and the procedures of the judicial branch of GovGuam.
Sanchez reportedly retained Abramoff in 2002 to lobby against a bill proposing to put the Superior Court under the authority of the Guam Supreme Court.